Ethans 7th letter/photos of 2015 Necochea, Argentina 2-16-15

Dear Family,

 

Alma 28​

14 And thus we see the great call of diligence of men to laborin the vineyards of the Lord; and thus 

we see the great reason of sorrow, and also of rejoicing sorrow because of death and

​destruction among men, and joy because of the light of Christ unto life.

​Alma 29​

 10 And behold, when I see many of my brethren trulypenitent, and coming to the Lord their God, 

then is my soul-filled with joy; then do I remember what the Lord has done for me, yea, even that he hath heard my prayer; yea, then do I

remember his merciful arm which he extended towards me.

13 Yea, and that same God did establish his church among them; yea, and that same God hath called me by a holy calling,to preach the word unto this people, 

and hath given me much success, in the which my joy is full.

​These are some scriptures that I really enjoyed this week as I was studying the Book of Mormon. The text is a little weird with the spacing but look for them in the scriptures instead of reading it from my letter. I am so grateful for all that God has done for me. He has blessed me so much!!

​   How to start this story.... When I was with Elder Hansen months back we were teaching the Mother of  Micaela who is a recent convert in the church, Her Moms name is Ana Julia Otarola​

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​, we taught her a couple times but wasn't progressing all that much so we drop her and stopped teaching her, but of course every time I have seen her in the last 6 months I have always been super nice and talked to her. The Sister Missionaries started teaching her shortly after we had dropped her and it was the same story. Once she got super close to being baptized and then she didn't want to because she is super Catholic... then we didn't see her for a month or more. Then Sunday Micaela asked us to pass by for her mom that night and talk to her, so we put it in our plans. We got to our house after lunch and we were getting changed to leave and work and the phone rang. The Sister Missionaries called me saying they had just ate with Micaela and her Mom and her Mom decided to be Baptized Saturday, February 14th..... I was super excited for her. Then the next thing she said was this, "but She wants and has wanted you to be the one the Baptize her!" I could not stop smiling due to this great Honor to baptized this women! and that is what happened, I baptized this women Saturday!

    Saturday night we did a Family Home Evening type thing with our Investigator Daniela. Mom had sent me to packets of  Taco Seasoning that I had not had the opportunity to use, so we made Home Made Tacos with her!! She had lived in the Utah for 3 months and loved the food there, so she enjoyed the Tacos! That was a great experience, I don't have pictures yet but i should get some from her soon. That was what happened this week!

Thanks for all that you do!!! I love you all very much!!!

​Con Amor,

Elder Ethan C. Durocher​